Fig. 4

Kaplan–Meier curves showing overall survival (a), disease-specific survival (b) and progression-free survival (c) stratified by tumor budding categories assessed according to the recommendations by the International Tumor Budding Consensus Conference (ITBCC) 2016 in H&E stained slides (low budding, BD1; intermediate budding, BD2; high budding, BD3). Comparisons were conducted using a log-rank test